buffer zone

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That route, called the Traffic Separation Scheme, established one 2-mile-wide lane for entering and one 2-mile-wide lane for leaving the Persian Gulf, plus a 2-mile-wide buffer zone.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

He added that the buffer zone needed to remain to "block the danger of invasion".

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The pact, brokered by the U.S. and France, required the creation of a buffer zone south of Lebanon’s Litani River and Hezbollah’s disarmament.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

The Turkish authorities have so far avoided the term "buffer zone" but options under review include deploying more troops and expanding technological surveillance systems, the official added.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

But the next year, in March 1936, Hitler stationed troops in the Rhineland, the buffer zone between Germany and France.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti